the 1% V the 99%. And relentless focus on Wall St. Unfortunately the DLC/Third Way political operatives who controlled much of the election strategy, detest OWS.
A good strategist would look at how successful and how rapidly that movement swept the country and ask 'what was it that captured the interest of so many Americans'. Instead they chose to try to discredit it, and they LOST.
The great lessons of 2014—drawn from the Democrats who lived to fight another day—proved to be mostly old-school and plainly commonsensical. Timid, consultant-scripted Democrats lost. Democrats who spent the campaign posturing as moderate Republicans lost. Bold, aggressively populist candidates—the few, the loud, the proud—won.
Of course, don’t try telling that to the ’90s nostalgists who continue to dictate so many Democrats’ election strategies no matter the results. Even as some of the votes were still being counted, Politico published a “Blueprint for Democratic Victory” by the high priest of triangulation, Democratic Leadership Council founder Al From. He advised his party that the way to look forward after the 2014 debacle was to look backward—to the supposed glory days of DLC hero Bill Clinton and his loyal band of Wall Street funders. Unsurprisingly, perhaps, From refused to acknowledge the reality that Clinton Democrats were approximately as popular as lepers in 2014, and that the candidates who followed his formula—which was most of them—were whipped in virtually every competitive race for Congress or governor.
Rage on, Mr. From, against the dying of the light.
From's Third Way/Regressive politics lost. What message will Dems take from the losses this time? From what I've read so far, they are still looking BACKWARDS, making the same mistake they made in two mid terms now, 'we need to go FURTHER backwards'.
Time for the old DCLers to retire, a new wave of populism, thanks to the disastrous results of THEIR policies on the working class, is sweeping the country and voters are taking matters into their own hands until they see some leadership that demonstrates their party is listening to THEM, not to WALL ST.
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